Sentences with phrase «by power plants running»

Therefore, these projects are not only reducing the volume of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, but they are also displacing electricity that would otherwise be generated by power plants running on fossil fuels like coal.

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The Folkstone, Kent - based company — the longest - running plant - based business in the UK — produces its non-GMO, organic and no - added sugar products in a dedicated vegan factory that is free from nuts, gluten, dairy, egg, fish and other allergens, and is powered by 100 % renewable electricity.
And there's long - standing political opposition by labor unions and lawmakers who have for years pushed to have power generated in the state rather than imported from Quebec, which has substantial government - run hydroelectric plants.
The prosecution says Competitive Power Ventures, run by defendant John Galbraith Kelley, gave Percoco's wife Lisa a $ 90,000 - a-year teaching job that required only a few hours of work in exchange for Percoco's help to ease state rules to get a power plant bPower Ventures, run by defendant John Galbraith Kelley, gave Percoco's wife Lisa a $ 90,000 - a-year teaching job that required only a few hours of work in exchange for Percoco's help to ease state rules to get a power plant bpower plant built.
Howe, who has already pleaded guilty to eight felonies, opened his testimony by taking questions about the hiring of Lisa Toscano Percoco to work on an education initiative run by Competitive Power Ventures (CPV), which has been developing a controversial gas - fired power plant in Orange CoPower Ventures (CPV), which has been developing a controversial gas - fired power plant in Orange Copower plant in Orange County.
The prosecution says Competitive Power Ventures, run by defendant John Galbraith Kelley, gave Percoco's wife Lisa a $ 90,000 a year teaching job that required only a few hours of work in exchange for Percoco's help to ease state rules to get a power plant bPower Ventures, run by defendant John Galbraith Kelley, gave Percoco's wife Lisa a $ 90,000 a year teaching job that required only a few hours of work in exchange for Percoco's help to ease state rules to get a power plant bpower plant built.
Nixon wore a T shirt that advocates closing a Hudson Valley power plant that runs on fracked gas, operated by the company Competitive Power Ventpower plant that runs on fracked gas, operated by the company Competitive Power VentPower Ventures.
Murray sent a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo criticizing PSEG Long Island for opposing construction of the plant, accusing the utility — contracted by the Long Island Power Authority to run the island's energy grid — of hypocrisy for not supporting the plant.
The New York Independent System Operator, which runs the state's power market, included the plant in its latest reliability needs assessment, meaning it is counting on the plant to contribute to the downstate base load by 2018.
Nixon wore a t - shirt that advocates closing a Hudson Valley power plant that runs on fracked gas, operated by the company Competitive Power Ventpower plant that runs on fracked gas, operated by the company Competitive Power VentPower Ventures.
That pump, which runs on a separate power supply from the rest of the plant, was inspected and standing by on Tuesday, but plant operators restored main power to the pool before the emergency pump was needed, he said.
Most electricity in the United States is generated at power plants that run on coal and natural gas — fossil fuels that contribute significantly to global warming by emitting large amounts of carbon dioxide.
The project — meant to launch in April but pushed back by renovation delays — looks set to start just ahead of a larger, newly built advanced coal plant in Kemper County, Mississippi, run by Mississippi Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company in Atlanta, Georgia.
At Loy Yang Power Station in Victoria, a pilot plant run by CSIRO will capture 1,000 metric tons of CO2 a year; the Australian research organization has collaborated with China's Huaneng Group to use an amine scrubber to capture CO2 from a co-generation power plant in Beijing and then selPower Station in Victoria, a pilot plant run by CSIRO will capture 1,000 metric tons of CO2 a year; the Australian research organization has collaborated with China's Huaneng Group to use an amine scrubber to capture CO2 from a co-generation power plant in Beijing and then selpower plant in Beijing and then sell it.
Currently, there are five coal - fired power plants registered as emission reduction projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), an international offsetting program run by an arm of the United Nations.
If a test using a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant works, Bayless hopes to have a full - scale bioreactor, with 1.25 million square meters of algae screens handling the output of a 10 - megawatt power plant, running by 2010.
Wavering solar and wind power don't play well with baseload nuclear plants that prefer to run at full blast, so the French must find a way to cope with this imbalance if they are to meet the European Union's directive to generate 20 percent of their electricity from renewables by 2020.
In other words, the more coal - fired power plants that can be replaced by those running on natural gas, the better it may be for the climate.
The first commercial 12 - module power plant, which will be owned by Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems and run by an experienced nuclear operator, Energy Northwest, is planned for construction on land owned by the US Department of Energy at the Idaho National Laborapower plant, which will be owned by Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems and run by an experienced nuclear operator, Energy Northwest, is planned for construction on land owned by the US Department of Energy at the Idaho National LaboraPower Systems and run by an experienced nuclear operator, Energy Northwest, is planned for construction on land owned by the US Department of Energy at the Idaho National Laboratory.
France has a power plant run entirely by leftover Beaufort cheese in the Alps.
By the same token, there is no harm in dropping multiple types of power plants - if you have the money and workers to keep them running.
For example, the nuclear operations group — which supplies critical nuclear components to the nuclear power plants onboard U.S. navy ships — spends about 5 to 9 years building a component which is then installed and run by the navy for more than 30 years before being retired.
The Power Plant's International Lecture Series (ILS) is a long - running program of talks by high - profile artists, curators and cultural commentators from around the world.
For the eighth year running, The Power Plant presents its ongoing series Power Talks, organized by the gallery for Art Toronto.
Some Murdoch papers are running an ad that seeks to guarantee > 1.5, by claiming the world needs 1,200 more coal burning power plants to stave off the existential threat of the next Ice Age
While the DOE's reasoning for linking fuel stores to grid resiliency has been widely criticized for its vagueness and gaps in logic, its idea for a solution is clear: «full cost recovery» for those power plants now playing by the rules of the energy and capacity markets run by interstate grid operators serving about three - quarters of the country.
Global average surface temperature anomalies, 2000 - 2100, as projected by MAGICC run with the original RCPs as well as with the set of RCPs modified to reflect the EPA 30 % emissions reductions from U.S power plants.
Energy efficient lighting for Africa and beyond, an event run by UNEP and the Clean Energy Ministerial, highlighted the crucial role and potential for new policies to drive the transition to LEDs throughout Africa and save over 60 TWh annually by 2030, equivalent to thirty 500MW power plants.
There's plenty to delve into in the EPA's proposed rules to limit carbon emissions from existing power plants 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 — the full proposal runs 645 pages.
A demonstration plant powered by geothermal has been running in Iceland since 2011, using a novel low - temp & low pressure technology to process electrolytic hydrogen and carbon from airborne CO2, to provide 2.5 % of the national liquid fuel requirement cut with petrol.
Let's assume consumption doubles until year X, but we get 80 % of our electricity from renewables by then, fossil fuel power plants running only 20 % of the time.
Solar power, being a fuel - free electricity source, is not subject to the price increases associated with electricity generated by power plants that run on gas or coal.
While I do remember one unusually cold winter in the last 10 years when we had snow on the ground until the end of March because it just wouldn't get warm enough to thaw (France actually ran out of power for their electrical heating that year, leading to huge imports from Germany, because nuclear plants just don't adapt well to demand), normally we should be in spring by now.
The cost of backfilling hundreds of «missing» wind megawatts, by importing coal - fired power from Victoria, running gas - fired OCGTs, reciprocating diesel engined generators and Jay Weatherill's 276 MW diesel - fuelled Open Cycle Turbines (that chew up 80,000 litres of diesel every hour) is staggering: Wind «Powered» South Australia Pays $ 14,000 per MWh for Power that Coal - Fired Plants Can Deliver forpower from Victoria, running gas - fired OCGTs, reciprocating diesel engined generators and Jay Weatherill's 276 MW diesel - fuelled Open Cycle Turbines (that chew up 80,000 litres of diesel every hour) is staggering: Wind «Powered» South Australia Pays $ 14,000 per MWh for Power that Coal - Fired Plants Can Deliver forPower that Coal - Fired Plants Can Deliver for $ 50
When Alabama Power announced they were planning to retire some coal power plants — Politicians reacted by saying: «Coal was created in Alabama by God, and the federal government should not enact policy that runs counter to God's plan&raPower announced they were planning to retire some coal power plants — Politicians reacted by saying: «Coal was created in Alabama by God, and the federal government should not enact policy that runs counter to God's plan&rapower plants — Politicians reacted by saying: «Coal was created in Alabama by God, and the federal government should not enact policy that runs counter to God's plan».
Carbon capture and sequestration was demonstrated at a coal - burning power plant in New Haven, W.Va., built in 1980 and run by American Electric Ppower plant in New Haven, W.Va., built in 1980 and run by American Electric PowerPower.
This runs smack into another one of the «building blocks» of the new EPA proposal, which is to require natural gas - fired power plants to increase their efficiency by running much closer to the peak of their capacity.
As Craig Morris has commented in an interesting review of the German programme, «Germany is replacing central - station plants that can only be run by large corporations with truly distributed renewable power.
Hamaoka 4 and 5 were running at the time of the current earthquake but apparently were unaffected and are evidently still running at present, as are Kashiwazaki - Kariwa 1, 5, 6, 7, and Tomari 1, 2 and 3, but Onagawa 1, 2 and 3 automatically shut down as did the plant at Tokai, while WNN noted that the reprocessing plant at Rokkasho is being supplied by emergency diesel power generators.
Then there's «intermediate load,» with the next - cheapest tier of power plants, and at the top of that second hump, «peak load,» satisfied by (usually natural gas) «peaker plants» that are expensive to run but easy to ramp up and down quickly.
According to long - range planning documents filed in mid-April 2011 with the Public Service Commission, LG&E Energy and Kentucky Utilities Company are making initial plans to retire coal - burning units at three aging power plants by 2016, including the Cane Run Station in western Louisville, KU's Green River Generating Station in Central City in Western Kentucky, and KU's Tyrone Generating Station in Versailles, which has already been mothballed temporarily.
Wavering solar and wind power don't play well with baseload nuclear plants that prefer to run at full blast, so the French must find a way to cope with this imbalance if they are to meet the European Union's directive to generate 20 percent of their electricity from renewables by 2020.
For example, additional capacity beyond existing plants is only required by 2020 if power generation growth exceeds 4 % year and coal plants are run at utilisation rate of 45 % or less.
In the short run, our choices for what kind of power plants we build can contribute to freshwater supply stress — by committing an imbalanced share of the available water to power plant use — and can affect water quality, by increasing water temperatures to levels that harm local ecosystems, for example.
In New York City, San Francisco, and at another demonstration in Toronto, protesters drew attention to the fact that companies like Apple use electricity generated by coal plants to run their data centers — which power the cloud that is now sucking down a ballooning slice of the world's energy pie.
There are roughly 224 million of these boxes in use in America and together they consume as much energy as produced by four giant nuclear power plants, running 24 hours a day.
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And while the President lectures us about our sins against the planet, his EPA and other agencies embark on the project to impose penance on us by forcing the closure of coal and other fossil fuel power plants, blocking pipelines, bankrupting the coal mining industry, subsidizing intermittent power sources that can't possibly run a fully operational electrical grid at reasonable cost, and multiplying our cost of electricity by an order of magnitude or so.
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